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...You can listen to acclaimed novelist Ben Lerner discuss his newest book, The Topeka School, on the FT’s culture podcast Culture Call....
...The other top-priced piece is Edward Weston’s 1925 portrait of the model (and, again, lover) Miriam Lerner....
...Roula Khalaf, FT deputy editor Richard Davies’ Extreme Economies (Bantam Press, RRP£20) is a reflection on human resilience....
...(WSJ) Podcast of the day Culture call Ben Lerner is one of the most acclaimed American writers working today....
...This proposition dates back to the work of Abba Lerner on “functional finance” in the 1940s....
...This story was corrected to reflect that Richard Lerner no longer represents Jody Kriss....
...Villa, which captured the European Cup in 1982 and were First Division champions in 1981, have struggled in recent seasons under the ownership of US businessman Randy Lerner....
...He’s passed it to Bernstein, who’s passed it to owner Randy Lerner …who isn’t there. RM: Gabby Agbonlahor. Shisha pipe. Dubai nightclub. Lamentable. GL: Now they’re making a substitution....
...Lerner continued slyly. “A success that runs out of steam.”...
...JD Salinger, Knut Hamsun, Richard Brautigan, Tao Lin, Richard Yates, Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie and Nicholson Baker. What are you scared of? Almost everything....
...Satin Island, by Tom McCarthy, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$24, 192 pages Novelist Randy Boyagoda’s new book is a biography of Richard John Neuhaus (Random House) Illustration by Simon Pemberton...
...Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, who tends to be sounded about by potential club investors, last week told the Financial Times there was not much activity. “It’s not busy,” he said....
...novel, New York-based writer Lerner has written about a New York writer who is supposed to be writing his, yes, second novel....
...Richard Nixon appeared on the Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In show in 1968, and Bill Clinton played saxophone on television early in his presidency....
...Richard Lipsey, emeritus professor of economics at Simon Fraser University in Canada, and an authority on technology trends, is also bullish. He points to a list of current changes....
...Other directors include Richard Lerner, an Opko director; Roger Kornberg, a director of two companies in which Opko and Mr Frost both have investments; and Arie Belldegrun, chairman and shareholder in Arno...
...A number of conservatives labelled the IRS’s conduct “Nixonian”, comparing it to the notorious way the late Richard Nixon misused presidential power to pursue his political enemies before his impeachment...
...Played in André Previn's large-scale orchestrations, and with the hand-picked John Wilson Orchestra at the top of its game, the musical numbers by Lerner and Loewe fairly sizzled....
...From Mr Richard Wood....
...The narrowing of profits among a small number of blue-chip Silicon Valley VC firms has left “a few global mega-groups with tremendous amounts of capital”, Mr Lerner said....
...Stephane Richard, chief executive of France Telecom, on Monday said that every SIM shipped this year would contain near-field technology....
...According to Lerner, the IRS is also citing a case involving stuffed animals in California. He has vowed to take the case “all the way”....
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